Company Paid Doctors To Push Drug (really? I can't imagine they would do something like that)

[Cleita]

4. What do you think all those free samples from pharmaceutical sales people are

about? I know many times I was a guinea pig for a new drug. As I spent half my life uninsured and didn't make fancy wages. My doctors knew I couldn't always afford expensive drugs so they would go digging through their free samples to give me something to relieve my ailments. Usually, they were something new on the market that said doctors had not tried on patients before. I really think that they wouldn't prescribe something new like that unless they worked okay on me.

Speaking of eye surgery, specifically cataract surgery, that I had, once I was old enough for Medicare, my doctor told me to take Advil. As far as he was concerned it was all the pain relief I needed and he was right.